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The Age of Sail in the Age of Aquarius


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In The Age of Sail in the Age of Aquarius, public historian Robin Foster examines the historic preservation movement of the 1960s through the development of Lower Manhattan's South Street Seaport Museum.

While conventional wisdom cites the preservation impulse as a response to the destructive course of midcentury urban renewal and the aesthetic void of modern urban planning, Foster considers a broader cultural landscape from which the preservation movement re-emerged: the social upheaval of the Sixties.

When the Friends of South Street obtained a charter to establish the South Street Seaport Museum in 1967, their vision was "to tell the story of the men in ships who built the city's greatness" during the heyday of the nation's maritime prowess. To them, the history and imagery of the city's Golden Age of Sail glowed like a beacon in the midst of a grittier reality, lighting the way forward through an era wracked by cultural and political upheaval.

Cutting through the nostalgia and the myths, Foster explores the history of New York City's oldest maritime district and digs into the deeper questions surrounding collective identity and cultural meaning that drove the desire to revitalize a heroic, if not mythologized, past during a decade of great uncertainty and change.


About the Author:

Robin K. Foster is a public historian.

She holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from Rutgers University-Newark and an M.A. in Museum Studies from Seton Hall University. A leader in cultural arts and public humanities organizations for nearly two decades, Foster currently teaches History at George Mason University. Her work on the South Street Seaport has been published in the Journal of Urban History.

Foster lives, writes, works, and raises chickens on the East Coast-never far from the sea.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781523953271
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 224
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: The South Street Seaport and the Crisis of the Sixties
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1523953276
  • Publisher Date: 12 Mar 2016
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Weight: 385 gr


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